Mutational analysis of conserved aspartic acid residues in the Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus MCM helicase

Extremophiles

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 245-252

  Sakakibara, Nozomi ^a,c   Kasiviswanathan, Rajesh ^a,d   Kelman, Zvi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaea; DNA replication; MCM helicase; Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; DNA; HELICASE; MINICHROMOSOME MAINTENANCE PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GEL CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENETICS; METHANOBACTERIACEAE; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPARTIC ACID; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA; DNA HELICASES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; MCM1 PROTEIN; METHANOBACTERIACEAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA; METHANOTHERMOBACTER THERMAUTOTROPHICUS;

EID: 79952250760     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-010-0352-1     Document Type: Article

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